The Latest Breaking News from John Major

The 1990s were an especially rough decade for the British royal family, a time filled with scandals about (but not exclusive to) Charles and Diana, the Prince and Princess of Wales, whose faltering marriage finally broke down for good and in public. This is where Season 5 of “The Crown”…

The drama following the life of Queen Elizabeth II is back

Netflix’s The Crown returned this week, and one particular scene has proved controversial

Netflix’s royal drama has returned for its penultimate season

When covering the royals, we often talk about the family ‘soap opera’. The conversations here are straight out of a poor one, says Stephen Bates, the Guardian’s former royal correspondent

A PRO-MONARCHY group in Australia have called for a boycott of Netflix's hit series The Crown as a row over the show's accuracy mounts.

‘I don’t want to fancy him,’ one worried viewer wrote

Season five of The Crown shows Prince Charles meeting with Prime Minister John Major to discuss the Queen's abdication - but people who were there at the time have labelled the storyline a "barrel-load of nonsense"

Major has recently called the Netflix series a ‘barrel-load of nonsense’

The drama was initially intended as a piece of historical fiction, but the longer it has gone on, the more tawdry it’s become

Is the Netflix hit’s relationship to controversy in direct proportion to the inappropriate attractiveness of its ensemble cast? Adam White investigates why a show about largely unsexy people is so ripe with sexy actors